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My way: an autobiography
Par David Dalton, Paul Anka. 2013
Autobiography of Canadian singer-songwriter whose lengthy career began as a teen idol in the late 1950s. Describes singing through the…
decades to a changing audience and hanging out with and writing hits for other singers, including Frank Sinatra and Buddy Holly. Some strong language. 2013.My memories of Jim Reeves: and other celebrities
Par Joyce Gray Jackson. 2009
The story of star-struck Kentucky girl Joyce Gray, who grew up, moved to Nashville where she worked behind-the-scenes on behalf…
of such Music City legends as singer Jim Reeves. This book documents her professional and private lives. 2009.My life with Bing
Par Kathryn Crosby. 1983
Kathryn Crosby discusses her first 12 years with her singer-actor husband, Bing, and their children. She describes the joys and…
difficulties of raising a family with the famous star, while she maintained her own acting career. 1983.My life on earth & elsewhere
Par R. Murray Schafer. 2012
A memoir by the internationally-acclaimed Canadian composer, music educator and writer R. Murray Schafer, traces the author's life and growth…
as an artist from his earliest memories to the present. Scenes from his youth as an aspiring painter, a music student at the University of Toronto and a sailor on a Great Lakes freighter give way to memories of his several years of work and wandering in Europe, where he gained a deeper understanding of his vocation, and found, especially in Greece, the inspiration for much of the astonishing music he would create after his return to Canada. 2012.My life
Par Margaret Crosland, Edith Piaf, Jean Noli. 1990
This autobiography of Edith Piaf offers romantic, and sometimes melodramatic, recollections of the French singer's celebrated, yet tragic, life. Her…
rise from poverty, her philosophical and religious convictions and her legendary generosity are intermingled with scandals of love affairs, drug addiction and alcoholism. 1990. Uniform title: Ma vie.My father's daughter: a memoir
Par Jeff Coplon, Tina Sinatra. 2000
A portrait of Frank Sinatra by his youngest daughter, Tina. Focuses on his home life, marriage to teenage sweetheart, Nancy,…
and his loyalty to his three children. Also describes the entertainer's tempestuous marriages to Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, and his last years with domineering wife Barbara Marx Sinatra. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2000.My story
Par Tommy Hunter, Liane Heller. 1985
Country singer Tommy Hunter became known while on the television show "Country Hoedown" in the late 1950s. For the past…
20 years, he has had his own TV show on CBC. 1985.My first forty years
Par Plácido Domingo. 1983
My young years
Par Artur Rubinstein. 1973
The pianist travels to South America in 1917 and then to New York and the glittering Paris of the 1920s…
and 1930s. He relates behind-the-scenes stories of concert life, tours, and his flight from the Nazis to Hollywood. 1973.Mozart: l'itinéraire libertin (Parenthèse : biographie ; #12)
Par Eve Ruggieri. 2006
De Mozart on connaît bien sur l'enfant prodige, l'adolescent rebelle, le génie foudroyé à trente-cinq ans. Mais il en est…
un autre, plus proche de nous, qu'Eve Ruggieri accompagne tout au long d'un itinéraire sentimental et libertin où l'on découvre son insatiable soif d'amour et de plaisirs. Des premiers émois de l'adolescence, des palpitations de Chérubin, aux jeux érotiques chez la Cousinette : d'une folle passion abusée aux conquêtes musiciennes transposées de l'alcôve aux scènes d'opéra, il n'est de note chez Mozart qui ne chante les feux du coeur et des sens. 2006.Mozart retrouvé
Par Alain Gueullette. 1982
Mozart's letters, Mozart's life: selected letters
Par Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling. 2001
These letters of Mozart span almost 22 years, from his first journey to Italy as a shy teenager to his…
final months in Vienna. These translations capture the "vibrant, earthy flavour" of his writing, even retaining the misspellings and inaccuracies of the original German. 2001.Mozart: An Illustrated Biography
Par Richard Baker. 1997
This biography tells the story of Mozart's triumphant tours across Europe as a child prodigy, his unwilling servitude under the…
Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, enlivened by his rebellious behaviour and remarkable earthy sense of humour, and the tragedy of his early death. 1997.Mozart (Master musicians)
Par Julian Rushton. 2006
An amazing prodigy who toured the capitals of Europe as a child, in his adulthood Mozart wrote some of the…
finest music in the European tradition. Offers a concise and up-to-date biography of this musical genius, combining a well-researched life of the composer with an introduction to the works - symphonic, chamber, sacred, and theatrical - of one of the few who have composed undisputed masterpieces in every genre of his time. 2006.Mozart: a life
Par Maynard Solomon. 1995
The author of "Beethoven" (DC15797) examines the life and music of another of history's great composers. Solomon shows how Mozart…
developed from child prodigy to mature artist by the time of his death at thirty-five. Combining musical analysis with an in-depth study of documentary sources, Solomon contests the "eternal child" myth, which he attributes to Mozart's father. Some strong language. 1996, c1995.Moonwalk
Par Michael Jackson. 1988
As children, Michael and his brothers played the amateur music shows and seamy Chicago strip joints until Motown's corporate image-makers…
turned the Jackson Five into superstars. In this autobiography Michael Jackson shares his personal feelings about family relationships, performance tours, celebrity friends and, breaking a fiercely guarded silence, describes his rise to mega-stardom. 1988.Mountain city girls: the McGarrigle family album
Par Anna McGarrigle, Jane McGarrigle. 2015
Anna and Jane recount their childhood in Montreal and the Laurentian Mountains, and go further back to their ancestors' early…
days in Canada, and their parents' courtship and marriage. A vivid snapshot of coming-of-age in the 1950s, the book recounts the sisters' school days and rebellious teenage antics, and their beginnings as musicians. It takes us through the vibrant folk music circuit of the 1960s in Montreal and New York City, and the burgeoning social movements of San Francisco, and ultimately leads to the formation of the folk music duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle, revealing the genesis behind some of their beloved songs and following their early days recording and performing. 2015.Maurice Chevalier: itinéraire d'un inconnu célèbre (Collection Mémoire d'autres)
Par Claudine Kirgener. 1988
Chanteur, vedette du café-concert et du music-hall, comédien, Maurice Chevalier a été pendant plus d'un demi-siècle l'incarnation des jours heureux…
de la Belle Époque, des années folles et, jusqu'à sa mort en 1972, comme un garant de notre joie de vivre. 1988.Elvis Presley, careless love: au royaume de Graceland, 1958-1977
Par Peter Guralnick, Emmanuel Dazin. 2008
Le livre de référence sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Presley. En deux énormes tomes, "Last Train To Memphis le…
temps de l'innocence, 1935-1958" (FD05200) et sa suite "Careless Love", Guralnick retrace la saga du King, de ses origines modestes à sa mort, le 16 aout 1977. Au-delà de la biographie, qui se lit comme un fantastique roman aux allures d'épopée puis de tragédie, l'auteur nous offre une analyse de l'émergence d'une nouvelle culture populaire qui allait très vite conquérir le monde. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier, quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, et quelques descriptions de violence. 2008. Titre uniforme: Careless love : the unmaking of Elvis Presley.Elvis Presley, last train to Memphis: le temps de l'innocence, 1935-1958
Par Peter Guralnick, Jean-Michel Dore. 2007
Premier volet d'une biographie en deux tomes, nourrie de nombreuses recherches, qui renouvelle le portrait de l'homme et de l'artiste.…
2007. Titre uniforme: Last train to Memphis : the rise of Elvis Presley.